My normally faceless raid frames developed once face, one that cackles manically in sync with me every time it glowed purple.

Yes, I nearly crossed over to the dark side, I nearly let the joy of a Lock’s experience with curses show through… Nearly…

Still, it raised an interesting thought for me. I have become lax at decursing for a couple of reasons.

There aren’t many fights in Naxx where I fear the odd curse, I know that’s slack, but I think of it as a hard mode.

Running with 2 Tree Druids has meant that it is a rare day that I beat them to the curse, so why stop the pew pew for a curse shoo shoo?

Now I know Healers have a priority list which usually goes something like Tank, Heals, Top DPS -> Bottom DPS. Battle Rez usually have the same priority.

This does make it hard for me as the lowest DPS. I do my job fine, but surrounded by Naxx25 and Ulduar geared mates, it’s hard for me to make a good impression. Still, when there are only 3 DPS I’m in with a good chance.

How about you as Mages though?

Do you have a decurse priority list? I know it’s important (decursing that is) for some of you, but what about the rest…

Do you think along these lines…

Ohh curses up… Mmm mid cast, a healer will get it.

Mmm healer didn’t get it… Nevermind, it will drop off before this cast (or the next one) is complete.

Do you look after your healer’s, your tanks, but screw the DPS? Do you decurse yourself and ignore the rest?

I fluctuate. On the bosses i tend to err on the side of caution. Everywhere else I like to see how high the debuff has remained on a player :)

There are some fights in Naxx where all I used to do is decurse and cure poison. At first i thought others were just slack. So i wound it back to the tanks. Then I realised that its probably just as easy to heal through the poison with HoTs and most of the curses would be put to shame by a Emo who recently read Wicca for dummies.

These days I only tend to do it secondary to what ever else is happening and still end up with top decurses.

There’s only a few fights you truly need to worry about, the rest is just UI wack-a-mole practice.

Now I’ve hung up the tree and brung out the chicken I will decurse selectively :)

Heroics are more of an issue. With my Holy Pally, I can sometimes struggle to keep healing and cleansing people in 5 mans; much more so than in a 25 man. Heroic ZulDrak poison spam, for example, or those dead ant guys in Azgolunoob or whatever!
Ok, it isn’t curses, but the principle is the same.

Priority:
Number 1 is the tank (with a Warlock as my main, I consider the tank to be a Voidwalker of sorts! It’s my personal meatshield, see?)

Second is me, of course, dur.

Third is the riffraff (dps) includes mages (just).

Last is pets, especially hunter pets – they can die; cute Warlock slaves..er pets should be kept alive if possible!

I decurse everyone. – I’m using Decursive, so it’s just a one-click thing. There are (were, I guess, since we don’t run Naxx anymore in my guild) times when I can pop out 50+ decurses on Sapph – I almost shut EVERYONE else out of decurses once :P

No real priority list, though. I basically go from group 1 to group 5. That said, situationally I will have a short prio list – if the curse is a healing debuff like the one in Spider Wing trash, I’ll throw quick decurses on the tanks and ignore everyone else.

I set up my priority list with Tanks then Healers. After that, it’s pot luck for whoever I click first. The only exception if someone pissed me off, I create my list and make sure they are at the bottom.